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‘Here's the it girl Sarah Jessica Parker in 2003, and here are Josh Holloway and Clay Aiken just this year.’

‘While Essence's assemblage of it girls presented a slew of fabulous black women, it did not challenge the foundation of exclusivity, privilege, and color prerequisites.’

‘Although Cleo is not born a society woman, she aspires to that status and competes with the other women in the novel to be the it girl.’

‘She was muse, artist, lover and it girl.’

Origin

Coined by the American screenwriter Elinor Glyn (1864–1943) with reference to the American actress and sex symbol Clara Bow, who made her name in such films as It (1927). The current use dates from the 1960s.